Sang spoke to The AP Monday as world leaders gathered at the United Nations.

Communist-ruled Vietnam and China have long-standing fraternal ties but tensions have grown over oil exploration in disputed waters, and as China has undertaken massive land reclamation in the Spratly island chain, also claimed by Vietnam.

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Jordan's king is making a heartfelt defense of the kinder side of Islam in the face of "the outlaws of Islam that operate globally today."

In his address to a U.N. gathering of world leaders michael kors selma large satchel brown , he asks, "When and how did fear and intimidation creep so insidiously into our conversation when there is so much more to be said about the love of God?"

The king says he has called the rise of extremist groups like the Islamic State in his region, and the crisis they have caused michael kors jet set travel large satchel black , "a third world war, and I believe we must respond with equal intensity."

Jordan borders both Syria and Iraq, and Syrian refugees now make up 20 percent of Jordan's population.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping is offering more than $1.1 billion to help with global peacekeeping efforts.

The leader of the world's second largest economy pledged $1 billion over the next decade to support the United Nations' efforts to further international cooperation and global peace and development.

Xi said China would also set up a permanent peacekeeping standby force of 8 michael kors bedford large satchel black ,000 troops to be deployed whenever necessary. China is already the biggest contributor of peacekeeping troops among the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, having sent more than 30,000 on 29 separate missions.

Xi said China would also provide $100 million in military assistance to the African Union over the next five years to support the establishment of an African standby peacekeeping force and to bolster the A.U.'s ability to respond to crises.

At the U.N. on Sunday michael kors miranda satchel medium blue , Xi said China would contribute an initial $2 billion to establish an assistance fund for meeting post-2015 goals in areas such as education, health care and economic development. He said China would seek to increase the fund to $12 billion by 2030.